---
type: "Bill"
title: "Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants and fees for certain individuals."
description: "Provides that certain Virginia students who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption and are enrolled in a noncredit workforce credential training program in a comprehensive community college may qualify for a grant for the payment of tuition and fees. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1032"
citation: "Virginia SB 1032 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a96c4f9-c599-4c86-b534-c807d7cd604d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1032"
source_hash: "692d76fac25a0d83ebb9381a710200025173af38a5c4373a8c935dd1604482af"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia SB 1032 (2017) — Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants and fees for certain individuals.

Provides that certain Virginia students who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption and are enrolled in a noncredit workforce credential training program in a comprehensive community college may qualify for a grant for the payment of tuition and fees. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0306)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1032ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1032ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101281D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1032)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101281D `introduction`
- **2017-01-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Assigned App. sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 306 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a96c4f9-c599-4c86-b534-c807d7cd604d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).